ATI Catalyst 9.12 released

Robert Hallock 17 Dec, 2009 at 4:46pm ET Article published in Tech

Fresh out of the oven, AMD has just served up a brand new Catalyst driver for Radeon HD 3000, 4000 and 5000-series GPUs. This WHQL-certified Windows XP/Vista/7 driver delivers the following changes:

DirectCompute 10.1 support for Radeon HD 4800 and 4700 adapters;
OpenGL 3.2 extension support;
Support for CrossFireX and Eyefinity on Radeon HD 5000-series parts;
Adds support for DisplayPort audio;
Several game bug fixes/enhancements;
and improved OpenCL support.

More information about the Catalyst 9.12 release can be had in AMD’s official release notes.

Downloads

Users should download this Catalyst 9.12 hotfix in addition to the appropriate driver below; the hotfix provides many features or enhancements not native to the 9.12 driver alone.

Windows 7 x86-64: Here
Windows 7 x86-32: Here
Windows Vista x86-64: Here
Windows Vista x86-32: Here
Windows XP x86-64: Here
Windows XP x86-32: Here

Comments

17 Dec 2009 ~ 5:28pm pigflipper I get a "File Not Found" error when trying to get to the hotfix.
17 Dec 2009 ~ 9:24pm airbornflght Is this going to fix the jumbo mouse pointer issue?
17 Dec 2009 ~ 9:25pm Thrax RTFM.
17 Dec 2009 ~ 10:29pm GooD

airbornflght wrote:

Is this going to fix the jumbo mouse pointer issue?

I have a friend who got a 5850 and got this issue too... Seems to be annoying as hell.

I've read on the net that its somewhat maybe a video card driver issue OR something that could be related to a problem that could be fix with a bios update for GIGABYTE UD4 Owner (he is)...

Problem is I don't want to make him flash his bios to the lastest version on his own but i wont see him anytime soon so for now he just endure this problem.

To date no driver update helped and this new one doesnt tell anything about correcting this kind of problem, but i would realy like to tell him a driver release would solve this probleme someday and that he could forget about what i said about 'flashing the bios could help' lol
17 Dec 2009 ~ 10:32pm Thrax The very first sentence on the hotfix page reads: "Hotfix that resolves the mouse being enlarged under WindowsÂ® 7."
17 Dec 2009 ~ 10:38pm GooD Oh yeah , the hotfix !

I missed that one too it seems :P

Now i understand the 'RTFM' and i feel bad :O

My friend is gonna be really happy tho !

Thankx :P
18 Dec 2009 ~ 6:19am thymian One of my friend told me that it runs fantastic on her GTX 295, just like it did on my GTX 285. But it does sound like you are not getting enough power somewhere. Does this happen when the system is on heavy load? Have you tried stress testing with with Sandra Lite 2010 or something similar?
18 Dec 2009 ~ 8:59am photodude

thymian wrote:

One of my friend told me that it runs fantastic on her GTX 295, just like it did on my GTX 285. But it does sound like you are not getting enough power somewhere.

someone talking about ATI drivers running on an Nvidia board lol

(I think you meant to post in the general hardware thread under PSU question)